Mean
Published on 7. November 2017
193 pages
978-1-56689-501-9 (ISBN)
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Gurba grows up queer, Chicana, and take no prisoners. Her story is a revelation, a delight, and an eye-opener.
True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba's coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, intoxicating, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously.
True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba's coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, intoxicating, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously.
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Myriam Gurba lives in California and loves it. She teaches high school, writes, and makes ?art.? NBC described her short story collection Painting Their Portraits in Winter as ?edgy, thought-provoking, and funny.? She has written for Time, KCET, and the Rumpus. Wildflowers, compliments, and cash make her happy.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Wisdom
- English Is Spanish
- The Whites
- Judas and Icarus
- The Problem of Evil
- Googolplex
- Señorita
- Cuban Interlude
- Acorn
- Mamase Mamasa Mamakusa
- Mormonse Mormonsa Mamakusa
- Hammer
- Bonnie
- Via Dolorosa
- Something I Often Reflect on as an Adult Woman
- The Unbearable Whiteness of Certain Girls
- Crack
- Summer in Sumer
- Cyndi Lauper
- OMG
- Dorm
- Fall Semester 1995
- ID
- Magdaleno
- c c cummings
- Nicole
- Aesthetic Boners
- Spring Semester 1996
- Hart Crane
- Babylon
- A Wrinkle in Time After Time
- Hella Ukiyo-e
- Omnipresence
- Strawberry Picker
- Exquisite Corpse
- Siluetas
- I Wandered Lonely as a Dissociated Cloud
- Jeans
- Fall Semester 1996
- Transcript of a 9-1-1 Call: November 15, 1996
- Battered Body Found at School: Mysterious Phone Call Alerted the Authorities
- Burrito
- The Albatross
- Page: 17
- Spring Semester 1997
- The Other Women
- Summer Session 1997
- Fall Semester 1997
- Spring Semester 1998
- Fall Semester 1998
- Spring Semester 1999
- Fall Semester 1999
- The Return of Elizabitch
- The Collector
- The Post-traumatic Bitch and the Sea
- Jobs
- Doing Donuts
- Capital Murder
- Flower Girl
- Radio
- Coffee House Press
- Funder Acknowledgments
- The Publisher's Circle of Coffee House Press
- Myriam Gurba
